Realtors reflect on recent successes; regroup for road ahead

The last time Realtors were in Orlando for the Realtors Conference and Expo in 2008, foreclosure filings had increased 81 percent over the previous year, home sales had decreased nearly 42 percent from a record high in 2005, and big banking conglomerates were still trying to enter into real estate brokerage and property management.

Recently, foreclosures are trending down, home sales are trending up, and banks have been permanently prohibited by law from entering into real estate brokerage, protecting consumers from anti-competitive and anti-consumer concentrations of power within the financial services sector.